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BG Robert F. McDermott, West Point graduate, WWll combat pilot and Harvard MBA, led a revolution in modern military education when he was assigned to the newly created Air Force Academy. Military retirement did not end his story. In his second illustrious career as Chairman and CEO of USAA, McDermott turned USAA into a national success story, and at the same time led the civic movement to modernize the city of San Antonio, TX. ... Read more

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Airforce History
geopolitical, Battling Tradition details the revolution in modern military education that became the ethos in the formative years of the United States Air Force Academy. The leader of this revolution was Robert F. McDermott. West Point graduate, World War II combat pilot, Harvard MBA, and a full colonel less than twelve years after commissioning, McDermott was assigned to the newly created Air Force Academy in 1954. Dreamers and Doers always exist, but rarely do individuals possess both traits, as did the brilliant McDermott. He had a vision of what the Academy could be, and then fought successfully to make it so. Building on the foundation of West Point's devotion to "Duty, Honor, Country," Dean of Faculty McDermott departed from the traditional educational ideas of Sylvanus Thayer and the senior service academies with his innovative academic programs. His goal was to match the excellence of America's most prestigious colleges and universities in order to produce better career officers to serve in an increasingly complex geopolitical world. His most staggering accomplishment was obtaining formal accreditation for the Academy before the first class graduated in 1959, the first and only such occurrence in the history of American post-secondary education. In this skillfully researched and well-written narrative based on new primary sources, Paul Ringenbach recounts the founding of the Academy and McDermott's extraordinary efforts that continue to impact the tens of thousands of graduates of the nation's service academies. This study is about leadership and one remarkable individual's success in overcoming entrenched opposition from traditionalists to bring the education of professional career officers into the modern era. Military retirement did not end McDermott's story, however. Ringenbach sketches his second illustrious career as Chairman and CEO of USAA. McDermott turned USAA into anational success story, and at the same time, led the civic movement to modernize San Antonio.

"Although I admired the charismatic General McDermott, I never really appreciated the difficulty and depth of what he did for the Academy, the Air Force, and the Nation until I read this biography."--General Ronald R. Fogelman, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force 1994-97, in Foreword

"General McDermott's courageous talent created an Academy for the ages. Paul Ringenbach has captured his essence here." --Michael W. Wynne, Secretary of the Air Force
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So, you've seen Flash, you've learned a little about it, but your work is beginning to seem a little stale now. You need new ideas, new paths.

Think about the best sites you've seen recently. What do they have in common? Very little, if they're any good. Except that they're probably designed in Flash and probably feature some Rich Media - sound and video - content.

What's the way forward on the web? What's going to make you stand out? The answer is simple: cutting-edge sound and video content. The application is less simple: sound and video elements have to fit through the limited bandwidth offered by the web, and Flash itself wasn't designed with all these uses in mind.

This book solves these problems. Divided into two comprehensive, separate sections on video and on sound, it uses the expertise of top professional web designers to show you how to design bandwidth friendly rich media Flash sites.

This includes comprehensive coverage of using Flash with the third-party technologies available for web sound (Cubase, Acid, Sound Forge) and web video (After Effects, Wildform FLIX, Flash Turbine, QuickTime, RealVideo, Premiere, Final Cut Pro).

This material is illustrated by fully worked case studies throughout, backed up with comprehensive video, audio and Flash files on the accompanying CD. Whether you're interested in preparing or recording sound for the web, filming video for the web, Flash, or web design in general, this is a bold book that you can't afford to miss. ... Read more

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How video and sound can be integrated into Flash!!
This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing you at the extreme edge of creative web design. The application of such tools as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge and Wildform test the boundaries of Flash and suggest ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the realms of Shockwave.

Showing you how to break your site down and incorporate video and sound, the techniques covered in this book capitalise on the capabilities of Flash whilst tackling its limitations head-on. It will then look at how to take web ideo and sound a step further with Shockwave presentations. ... Read more

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Walter M. Camp (1867-1925) was an indefatigable collector of Custeriana who set himself the intimidating task of interviewing every living survivor of the battle at the Little Bighorn. Unfortunately, with Camp's death this information was scattered. This volume gathers his most important material, much of which was not previously available. Custer and Company presents information on Sergeant John Henley, veteran trooper of the Seventh Cavalry, and a number of other Seventh Cavalrymen and frontiersmen, including interpreter Sam Bruguier; Camp's research on various unsettled questions of the Little Bighorn fight; interviews with several surviving Indians and famed scout Luther North; and extensive information on the death of Crazy Horse. ... Read more

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Caution: misleading title!
This book has a misleading title. This is a small short book, and only a part of it is actually about the Little Bighorn (LBH) fight. Other parts of the book are interviews Camp conducted concerning the Yellowstone expedition, the Little Bighorn aftermath, the death of Crazy Horse, the Powder River expedition, and the Battle of Summit Springs. Do not buy this if you expect Walter Camp's complete notes on the Custer fight. Get Kenneth Hammer's "Custer in 76" if you want a far more complete set of LBH interviews strictly concerned with that subject.This book contains some of Camp's notes not included in Hammer's book.

This book is recommended however for its extensive highly informative footnotes.There are very nearly more footnotes than text, and therein is a wealth of information about the people and events in the 1866-78 era.

A big ( )
This has to be the worst book I have read so far on Custer andthe Little Big Horn Battle. Big print, wide margins make this book inmy mind a money grab. Thirty pages of preface and introduction and 11 blank pages help to fill out this book. This book does have some interesting points but all in all I found it very disapointing. They must have laughed they way to bank with this one.END

A superb and accurate account of the Little Big Horn events
One of the finest accounts of the Custer fight. I would recommend this book over most of the others. Mr. Camp sought out survivors and interviewed them, he sheds some fresh light on many of the confusing issues. And hedetails some very interesting items of the actual fight itself. Excellentand has a place of honor on my book shelf. Check it out, you won't bedisappointed.

Interviews Add New Light on Several Topics
Reading Camp's intervies makes you wish he had a chance to write the definitive book on Custer and the LBH. The accounts are a little rambling because they are based on Camp's original notes. The interviews highlightconflicts between some of the notable but challengable LBH testimonies. Theinterviews also reveal information about the retreat from Weir Point, themystery rider in C Company found miles from the battlefield on the Rosebud,first hand accounts of the death of Crazy Horse, information on "Whitehat" (Lt. Phillo Clark) and a virtual biography on Luther North whodemonstrated great success utilizing Pawnee tribesmen as soildiers andscouts. The footnotes provided by the editors provide a terrific resourceof information that more than adds to the Camp's notes, almost like havingtwo books in one. ... Read more

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Out-of-print medical textbook. Covers diseases of the cardiovascular system, kidneys, digestive system, hepatic systems, nutrition, metabolism, endocrine system, bone, and joints. Also covers hematologic and hematopoietic diseases and hereditary disorders. ... Read more